Leah Tharin: Do You Want To Make Your Writing Actionable? Go Into the Details.
Product leader and product-led growth advisor, Leah Tharin talks about why cultivating great writing skills is key for product management learning and career growth.
By Tremis Skeete, for Product Coalition
In a conversation with growth hacking instructor Maja Voje, product-led growth advisor Leah Tharin shares stories in regard to how she navigates and cultivates her product career, especially with respect to writing her own material.
Leah talks about the value of being able to craft her own writing for she finds it to be the best way to refine her understanding of how she applies knowledge and techniques, whether it’s on her day job, or for her consulting clients, and in everyday life.
The points Leah shares during this conversation align well with a recently published Product Coalition article about why product managers need to become great writers:
Here are the key quotes from Leah, from her conversation with Maja Voje:
“I want to keep myself accountable that I write about something that I learn, because this [writing] is also reinforcing my learning.”
“The moment you write it down, you have to conceptualize something, you have to bring it into a form where someone else understands it. You visualize it. It’s kind of a learning mechanism.”
“That’s when I started to also notice, this entire thing that I do on LinkedIn is actually helping me to also become better. It’s a writing outlet.”
“If you want to make something [in your writing] actionable, and that’s where I get my value from — you need to go into the details.”
“I’m actionable [in my writing] to the level of ‘You can take this and you can use this operationally in your daily work.’”
“And that’s my differentiator to most of the other content creators, and that’s why OpenAI [ChatGPT] does not work for me. What I write is unique from my experience and I can defend it.”
